It was only after the strong positive strike vote that things began to change for CUEFA. The administration agreed to the Union’s proposal on workload days after the vote. They dropped demands for reduction in job security one day after the strike began. They agreed to submit salary demands to binding arbitration a few days after that.
Graduate workers at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and University of Lethbridge, representing approximately 6,500 members, stand in solidarity with the Concordia University of Edmonton Faculty Association (CUEFA). We applaud the actions of CUEFA to negotiate for long overdue items in order to bring parity to sector norms.
We strongly believe that an injury to one is an injury to all. The issues that impact CUEFA – low pay, high workload, and stressful bargaining – impact unions across the post-secondary education sector in Alberta.
ULFA fully supports Alberta nurses, and all healthcare workers, who are standing up for safe patient care and against understaffing, bed closures and rollbacks.
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